COM 130 Week 1 Checkpoint Legal Considerations
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Assignment: Writing for an Audience
• Resource: Ch. 2 of Professional and Technical Writing Strategies
• Due Date: Day 7 [Individual] forum
• Imagine you have been asked to communicate to several clients regarding a delay in the
production of widgets your company produces. Your clients are both local and
international. They have diverse backgrounds, technical experience, and understanding.
1. Choose and utilize a prewriting technique to gather your thoughts.
2. Create a draft of the document that will deliver the news to your company's clients;
consider a letter format for the document.
3. Use post writing steps to ensure your document is ready to be sent to your manager for approval.
• Remember what you have learned about audience and how to convey both positive and
negative news.
• Include all parts of the writing process for your instructor to see.
• Write 1,050 to 1,400 words.
• Post your assignment as an attachment.
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COM 130 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2
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Discussion Question 1
• Post your response to the following: Describe the skills of a successful technical writer.
Provide at least three examples and explain their importance to the technical writing
process. If you were a technical writer, which skills would you consider most vital to your
position and why?
Discussion Question 2
• Post your response to the following: Based on Ch. 1, identify two ethical principles that
should guide technical communications. Explain each of the principles you chose and
provide an example of why each is important....